Catching up

 Wednesday 01/09 - After work headed to the Turia park and did with my brother 5  x 800m with 400m jog rest. He had run in the morning and he was going to do just 1 repeat for fun, but he ended doing all 5. Not only that, He beated me in each repeat. 15 mins warm up inc. 5 x 50m strides, splits for the 800s were 3:32, 3:31, 3:31, 3:28, 3:22. I just did not have it but somehow in the last 2 repeats I could really run decent. Much better paces than previous week. 15 mins cool down to home. Happy with this workout.

Thursday -  After work did 47:16 in the Blasco park. Did 8 laps easy to recover from the workout.

Friday - Ran in the morning at 6:10 a.m. with my brother. Did the Maximo Gomez route. Ran pretty slow, the time was 54:59 for that route which I think is the slowest that I have run. Anyway, was just an easy run. 8.3k total

Saturday -  In the morning at 7:30 a.m. I met my brother in the harbor where we start the tempos. I had warmed up 17:50 including 5 x 50m strides. I should say that this run was a failure, this is the first time that the interal clock is so off and I suprised big time when I saw the watch when I finished. I dont know what happened. I did not look at the watch during the tempo, my brother told me afterwards that I would have run the first km in 5:33, which felt like 5:00. Dont have an explanation for that, I think I just was out mentally, my brother staying behind did not help, He aborted after the firs km, because he was very full. He had eaten a lot the previous day.I did what I could, but I felt strong, I thought that I could get away with 29:xx feeling almost easy. When I saw 31:27 with the first half in 15:50, I said loud, what???? I though that I had run 29:xx, the only positive is that I felt pretty good, but it was very slow and the pace felt much faster. Next time I will look at the watch in the first km to avoid this to happen again. I almost try it again on Sunday, but thought better of it, did my planned long run instead. 16 mins cool down to home. Around 11.5k for the day. My brother ran with me for about 600m in my last mile, then he stopped and went home walking.

In the afternoon I walked more than 15 kms watching the fallas in Valencia and walking in the city with friends. My inner part of the tight were chafing a lot and I was hurting with each step. Burned a lot of calories that day.

Sunday -  was up at 6 a.m. and was out at 07:00 a.m. for my long run, my brother did not run, so I had to do it alone. At first the chafing was bothering me, but then felt fine. I hit the halfway in 43:20, so 2 mins faster than last week and the run was 3:30 faster than last week feeling better. I think that the slow tempo the day before helped to feel fresher today as I averaged sub 6 mins per km at an easy effort. Felt pretty good, but thirsty. Did the route to the Patacona in 1:25:14, so I had to complete the extra mins until reach 90 mins. Sweated a lot. At halfway I was soaked and the sun had not gone out fully yet.

Solid week of training again, 6 runs for the week.

Monday -  Planned rest day and an opportunity to the chaffing to heal a bit. Will have to pour vaseline.

Tuesday (today) I ran after work at 7:10 p.m. and did 8 laps in the blasco park easy, from lap 6 to 8 I did 6 strides, the first one felt like  a truck, but got easier and smoother by the last stride. 45:33. My brother ran there, but we ran togethere when I ran 30 mins, and did 1 lap pretty much together, but then when I started my 2 laps of strides, built a gap. Also I got my 2nd shot of the vacine today. I think I have walked 10 kms today besides the running.

Tomorrow will do a workout in the Turia in the evening. Lets see how it goes. 

Morning run

 Yesterday was a planned day off.

For today I had planned to run in the morning, and thats what I did. Was up at 05:30 a.m. the alarm clock woke up, weird, because generally I wake before the alarm, yesterday was one of those days that I slept continously. Was out at 06:00 a.m. to do the Maximo Gomez route that I had not done for a couple of months, because its almost impossible to do that route in the evening, traffic is too crazy.  In the early morning you have the road for yourself. Felt good and incorporated 6 strides fast but with good form. Finished the 8.3k in 52:12 feeling pretty good.

Another good week of training

 Monday -  Planned day off

Tuesday -  After work, did 8 laps in the blasco park and 6 strides in the last 2 laps, did 45:46. Felt good, but a bit tired.

Wednesday -  After work headed to the Turia park to do 4 x 1000m with 400m jog rest. This is my first workout in the Turia park in the evening since last year. I had forgotten, how much people run at that time, Its good to see people, but when you are doing a workout is not that funny that you have to dodge people literally every 20m. The splits were slow, but the effort was there, in fact, that left me very tired for the rest of the week. Warmed up 15:10 to the Turia including 5 x 50m striders. Splits were: 4:32,4:31, 4:30, 4:27. My legs were fried afterward and sweated like a pig. 15 mins cool down to home.That was my 5k pace 3 months ago, but on cooler temps.

Thursday and Friday were easy runs after work doing 8 laps. Felt tired on both days, but much more tired on Friday than on Thursday. Times were 47:11 and 47:28 respectvely.

Saturday  -  I forced myself to wake up early and headed out to the Turia at 7:20 a.m.alone to do my tempo work, my brother was out of town. When I finished the warm up I was already sweating a lot. 15 mins warm up including 5 x 50m strides. Then did 5k tempo, but was very tired within the first km, did not look at the watch during, but pressed the split button at the half. I almost dropped out with a mile to go, but stayed strong. Finished in 24:45. I wanted to do some 200s afterwards, but given that I finished that tired, I just skipped them and headed out home for the cool down. Halfway was 12:17, did 10 seconds positive split, but did not have it since the first 500m. Those 1000m repeats really took out a lof from me, but I will adapt. 15 mins cool down afterwards, swating like a pig, eventhough the sun was not shining hard yet, but the humidity is aweful.

Sunday - Woke up even earlier and was out the doot at 6:58 a.m., to beat the sun, but not the heat. Ran until the patacona at the end in the harbor in 45:51, then turned back and came back in 1:28:43,then completed the rest to do 90 mins. I thought that I was going to finish much tired, but I was very prepared mentally, sweated a lot and the sun did not hit me hard because I was out early. Finished very thirsty nonetheless. Felt strong overall.

Nice week of training, 6 days and I am feeling better each week. Long ways to go to be where I want to be at.  One step at a time!

Good week of training

 Mondaiy - off 

Tuesday -  After work ran easy alone in the blasco park. Did 8 laps and in the last 2 laps did 6 controlled strides. I think the time was 46:33 or something like that. Felt good

Wednesday - I ran again after work, got out with my home mate, but he was full and he pretty much aborted in the first 15 mins of the run. I did want to do a light  fartlek workout, so I warmed up 15 mins easy including 5 x 50m strides to loosen up. This was done in the blasco park. Then did 7 x 1 min fast and 1 min off, then did a 17 mins cool down. I felt pretty good in the workout, I thought that it would be a struggle, but I felt pretty good. although very thirsty at the end. Around 50 mins for the day.

Thursday - After work again easy in the blaco park, did 8 laps in 46:55. Very easy, felt good.

Friday -  After work, did the exact 8 laps in the blasco park at almost the exact time. Did 46:54

Saturday in the morning -  I headed out around 7:30 a.m. to the Turia park to do a 5k tempo run with my brother. The goal was simple to feel good running at 5 mins or a bit faster / km pace. The first tempo back its always slow and painful, but I felt pretty good and strong on this one, but the pace was slow. Did not look at the watch, just at the half way because I accidentally stopped the watch instead of hitting split button. Did 19 seconds negative split and finish the 5k in 24:59. My brother did 23:57, but in the second half he did a fartlek, he is in great shape eventhough he is not training that much. Its a shame that in races he cannot perform. Did 15:30 warm up including 3 x 50m strides and 1 x 100m strides. After the tempo did 15-16 mins easy to home.

Sunday -  In the morning, I headed out to the harbor at 7:05 a.m. and the plan was to do 75 mins. I started very slow, but in the second half did it in 3:30 faster than the first half. I only ran 30 mins with my brother because he had to turn around sooner, I told him that I would turn around when my watch read 38:30, not sooner. Felt pretty good in this long run and strong, despite having drunk 5 beers the night before. The weather was hot, but in the harbor it was pleasantly good, the sun had not gone out entirely yet, so I took advantage of it. 75 mins total, maybe 12k.

Pretty good week of training 2 workouts and feeling much better than last week. Doing what I can with the time given, only about 6 weeks for the Ibercaja 10k. The goal would be to run sub 50 mins, we will how the trainig goes until then.

Today is a planned day off and tomorrow I will get back at it, hopefully feel better than this week and the workouts are faster. 

Catching up

 Another run of 6 weeks. For me is good given the work load that I am having in the last few weeks. I supposed to start workout this week, but the heat is treating us bad and the first 3 weeks of the week were not that easy for me. I started running with a new homemate, and the kid runs fast. We just run 5 mins per lap which is much faster than I am used to go on my easy runs. I had tired legs on those 3 days.

Monday -  off

Tuesday - 8 laps in the blasco park after work starting from home. Time was 41:33, it was not easy for sure. home mate did 31 mins at a faster pace and he runs with a mask on. The kid got talent.

Wedneday -  Same route as the day before in 41:38, but feeling much better than the day before. The kid again defeated me by 40+ seconds.

Thursday - Again the same route as the day before in 42:24, I just took it more easy, because I had feeling tired. My home mate did 26 mins as he was tired. I tried to make some moves during the run, but he would match those moves easily and even built a gap. These days the heat has been strong, but you got to do what you got to do.

Friday - Again after work, this time alone, I ran at my normal easy pace, but I was feeling very very tired from the get go. I only felt good in the last 2 laps or so of the run. Did 8 laps in 46:37.

Saturday -  Another evening run, but this time at 6 p.m. and drank 3 beers in the morning. Despite the strong heat I felt good and felt fresh, even incoporated 6 controlled strides in the last 2 laps. Did 45:07 for the 8 laps feeling pretty good. Did this one alone.

Sunday -  I did not want to run in the evening, its hard to run in the evening on weekends, so I beated the bed and was up at 6:30 a.m., but was out at 08:10 a.m. waiting for my brother. At that time the heat is already high. The plan for the day before was to do a tempo run in the harbor, but I just was flat and tired, so I decided to do 60 mins easy instead. I did this one with my brother, but he did around 50 mins. I did 60:25 sweating like a pig and the sun was hitting hard in the harbor. I felt happy because I had more than 6 weeks that I did not run for 60 mins so thats progress. Was very thirsty at the end though.

6 runs for the week, so I am liking the consistency, but I am very tired and the legs are trashed, I hope to adapt quickly.

Today was a planned off day and tomorrow I am back on the road.

Another 6 runs for the week

 This past week I ran 6 times. All short runs, but it was just to get back into the swings of things. 

Monday -  off

Tuesday - 32 mins in the Blasco park after work. Too hot, felt ok.

Wednesday  - 6 laps in the blasco park starting from my home after work. Total time was 35:27 or 35:37, dont remember well. It does not matter really.

Thursday -  I had to cut my run short, because some friends were waiting for me in a bar, I was caught by surprise just before running. I ran 20 mins with the first 15 mins " fast" 5  - 5:10 per km average, the last 5 mins were easy as I had to cross a street. This was a short one, but better than nothing. Hot. I was very sweat at the end eventhough it was only 20 mins.

Friday -  Again after work, I did 35:11, then did 6 x 20 seconds strides off 40 seconds recovery standing still. This tired me more than a workout, so that shows that I am in very bad shape. On Saturday I was even a bit sore in the hamstrings.

Saturday -  At 5:30 p.m. I did again 6 laps in the Blasco starting from home and it was very hot and the sun shining hard, but I was confortable nonetheless. I did 35:22 for 6 laps.

Sunday -  Ran at 6 p.m. and it was cloudy and was not that hot, so I felt pretty good. I took advantage of the good feeling and decided to do 8 laps in 46:02. This is my longest run in the last 1.5 month. Very happy to get back to 6 runs per week. I felt really good on this run, the best I have felt in weeks. 

All the runs in the evening, but given my work load right now, with some coworkers on vacation, I am getting work extra early, so I am leaving the runs for the evening, and also those are short runs, but by the time everything settle down, I will start training in the morning again to hit hard workouts.

Today I took the day off, it was planned. Looking forwards to tomorrow`s run. 

one run for the week

 This week I only ran today, but it was not purposely, but the reason I wont tell it on this site. I really wanted to run, but I was not able to. 

Finally today I could finally get out and hopefully I wont lose more time of training. I have lost a lot of fitness in the last  6 weeks.

I woke up early today at 06:30 a.m. and was out to run at 7:20 p.m. to the blasco park, did 30:35 total time. Felt good and the weather was pretty cool, not the heat that you will face in the evening.

Next couple of weeks work will be crazy, so I will have to get to work very early so the runs will have to be in the evening. 

Hope you had a great week of training!